it's a honor to be a part of the community, so first of all I'd like to say congratulations to all of the authors for their work!

I live in Tuscany, Italy, I'm a winemaker (cliché, right?) and I discovered the SCP Foundation a couple years ago. I'd like to contribute to its development with a couple ideas I had -a good starting point would be introducing some of my land's folklore into the SCP fictional universe.

Anyway, I think I still need some time to get informed about writing techniques, choice of words, excetera, so for now I'll just try to put my little knowledge at your disposal and wait to be ready for writing.

My interest, besides what I do for a living, include:
Music, Modern History, Gastronomy

Wow, you're a winemaker! That's pretty amazing. Any fond memories of your craft you'd like to share with the site?

In regards to becoming a writer here, your first step is to create a sandbox page for yourself, to keep your works-in-progress and writing references at. When you've got a draft ready to be reviewed, bring it to the IRC chat and/or the drafts forums for feedback before you post to the mainsite.

There are many resources available to site writers in the Guide Hub, and if you're unsure about aspects of the writing process, you can ask in the General Advice forum. You can also comment in others' discussion threads as well, if you're interested in the conversation!

If you have any other questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to contact a staff member.

Hi, thank you for the warm welcome!
I'll make sure I'll follow your advices: I've read most of the Guides already so I'll probably pop up in the General Advice Forum soon :)

Regarding the wine making, yep, I think I have a couple of nice anecdotes to tell, since I've been around the farm since when I was just a kid!
My favourite one is dated back to 1998 or early '99 (I was 9): my father took me with him during a quality check of the fermentation process with our enologist, and they started discussing about something I cannot quite recall (probably volatile acidity).
Suddently the enologist glanced at me and asked my father ''Now, what's the kid doing?''
I just had managed to get my own glass, poured some wine from the Barrica Grande (Oak Barrel) and I was enjoying my tasting.
My father answered ''Oh right, wrong glass. Here, have this one''.

By the way, should there be any wine enthusiast here planning to visit Italy, please let me know!